Conflict Essay

The Death of A Salesman by Arthur Miller and “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald share a common theme of the American Dream. The main character, Willy Loman from The Death of A Salesman, pretends to be well liked in order to impress his two sons, Happy and Biff. This is just like Jay Gatsby from “The Great Gatsby,” who also pretends to be well liked and makes it look like he is. Both Willy Loman and Jay Gatsby go from rags to riches in their own way to make something out of themselves. In…

Throughout the play “Macbeth”, there is a constant struggle for satisfaction. While dealing with the internal struggle between his morals and his thirst for power, is the representation of humanity’s constant struggle for gratification, as well as my own. Though he attempts to attain his goals, he ends up losing more than he ever gains. This struggle for satisfaction eventually leads to his death, as well as the deaths of almost everyone around him. I also struggle with satisfaction, believing…

In The Hunger Games, author Suzanne Collins presents the idea that distractions led by cowardice and fear keep people from involving themselves in more important matters. Especially when people are fearful for something in the future. In society people have things that they’d rather delay for as long as possible. They will be too distracted by the fact that they don’t want something to happen, that they don’t even realize that something is going on below the surface. For example in The Hunger…

There are situations where not many people have experienced before, and because of this, they struggle in what to do. Many people society believe they will act differently in a difficult situation in regards with hurting another person. However, this is not true, and there is a difference between who people think they are and who they actually are. In Lauren Slater's Opening Skinner's Box, there's an experiment that tests one's obedience. This experiment relates to the boys in William Golding's…

The River Underground - Richard Tromans Immigrating from one country to another country always has its hardships, but it is also about how a person view the hardship the way they tackle it. The river underground, written by Richard Tromans (2003), is a short story where two cultures clashes and where two completely different classes meet. It is about a man who tries to tackle the hardship as an invidual in the modern society. In the short story the reader gets to meet the dynamic protagonist,…

There are many obstacles that are presented in life. Why? Every obstacle is put in a person’s life for a reason. They teach people valuable lessons to learn from. Also, they are placed in life for a person to overcome them. In William Gay’s “Closure and Roadkill on the Life’s Highway”, life has obstacles every step of the way that can possibly hurt a person. However, overcoming the hardships presented takes time. Time is the key to closure. With that being said, closure is essential for moving…

Stress and Workload Management in Digital Librarianship: An Approach to Identify the Causes and Attainable Solutions Abstract: Stress is the feeling that we get under pressure, where as stressors are the factors to which we have tendency to respond in our environment. Every individual in the earth has to experience this at any point of his life and Library & Information science professional are not exception to this. Thus no one can avoid stress and pressure in his work and life; hence the…

What defines the complexities in this world? What determines our individual separation yet unites us at the same time? What causes each of us to act differently than those around us? As each of us travels through our own journey that we call life, we create an assimilation of experiences that are used in reference when making future actions. On a day to day basis our minds accumulate more and more of these experiences which can produce different expectations and a unique sense of structure in…

Throughout the book, we are able to see the prominent theme of power, and the dangers and ideas of control. On various situations, we are able to see the dangers of over controlling power-- or under controlling it; Margaret Atwood is able to paint a picture of the now present or grim future. One of these scenarios, is when Offred states “it isn’t running away they’re afraid of. We wouldn’t get far. It’s those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge.” Here…

Meetings are unavoidable in all social structures no matter profitable or non-profitable. Meeting is defined as an act or process of coming together as an assembly for a common purpose (Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary (2010)). Meetings can be categorized into two: formal and informal. Formal meetings means, meetings involving persons that representing a formal entities such as business entities, government entities, and NGO. Informal meetings are family meetings and friends meetings. Meeting and…